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It was another close match, and this week’s winner, The Rum, took the first place spot over regular contenders Hobo Camp and Glacial Pace. Here are the answers to last night’s questions.

If you’ve got a hankering to answer questions like these, join us every Monday night at 8pm for Triviotic at Arrow, 85 Avenue A. And yes, despite the holiday, it’s game on next Monday. Memorial Day is a great day to get drunk and lose your memory.

Answers after the jump…

I. Music

The next ten items are names of Caribbean Islands. For each one, tell me if it was an island (a) mentioned in the Beach Boys song “Kokomo,” or (b) NOT mentioned in the Beach Boys song “Kokomo.”

1. Bermuda
2. Antigua
3. Trinidad
4. Jamaica
5. Montserrat
6. Barbados
7. Bonaire
8. Aruba
9. Key Largo
10. Martinique
II. Geography

The next ten items are ten cities in the United States. For each one, tell me if it is in the (a) Eastern Time Zone, (b) Central Time Zone, (c) Mountain Time Zone, or (d) Pacific Time Zone

11. Birmingham, Alabama
12. Cleveland, Ohio
13. Boise, Idaho
14. Albuquerque, New Mexico
15. Nashville, Tennessee
16. Louisville, Kentucky
17. Mobile, Alabama
18. Minneapolis, Minnesota
19. Las Vegas, Nevada
20. El Paso, Texas
III. Film School

For each picture, match the movie poster to the correct movie.

IV. Before & After School Activities

In this round, I will provide a clue with two answers and a common word. You will have to answer with the correct phrase that combines the two answers. For example:

- Danny Tanner sings the 1992 hit “Jump Around”

Answer: Full House + House of Pain = Full House of Pain.

31. Capital of Missouri becomes 1998 flick starring Meg Ryan and Nic Cage.
32. Beastie Boys tune honoring Mets’ short-season single-A baseball team.
33. 1983 Bonnie Tyler song suffers coronary artery blockage.
34. Emo rock group becomes the subject of 1976 song by The Trammps.
35. Bob Keeshan’s children’s TV character holds legal hearing with no due process.
36. Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert play in a no-limit Texas Hold-Em main event
37. Before his conversion to Islam, Muhammad Ali is runner-up to American Idol Ruben Studdard
38. “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” performers pay homage to 10-part HBO war docudrama.
39. Youngest N’Sync member is the site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics.
40. California football team starts Harrison Ford at QB as they face-off against the Nazis
V. Study Hall

This is the miscellaneous trivia round, coming from all subjects. Each question in this round is worth 2 points, so it’s anybody’s game.

41. What doctor and convicted felon announced his intention to run as an independent for Congress in Michigan’s 9th congressional district in March of 2008?
42. What Elvis Presley tune did Bill Clinton play on his saxophone during his 1992 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show?
43. What is the Oldest Brewery in the United States, in operation since 1829?
44. What New York City bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the United States and was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened in 1964?
45. Norman Rockwell’s art donned the cover of what magazine from 1916 to 1963?
46. Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 transatlantic flight began on what is now the site of which Long Island mall?
47. Which Canadian province has held two referenda on separating from its mother country, one in 1980 and one in 1995?
48. What 1997 film earned Burt Reynolds his first-ever Oscar nomination?
49. How many U.S. states has received a measurable snowfall in their history?
50. This week in 1902, Cuba declared its independence for the second time. At that time, what country did it declare its independence from?

Answer Key

1. a / 2. b / 3. b / 4. a / 5. a / 6. b / 7. b / 8. a / 9. a / 10. a

11. B / 12. A / 13. C / 14. C / 15. B / 16. A / 17. B / 18. B / 19. D / 20. C

21. Scarface / 22. Brokeback Mountain / 23. Jaws / 24. Napoleon Dynamite / 25. Top Gun / 26. Spaceballs / 27. Forrest Gump / 28. An Inconvenient Truth / 29. Pulp Fiction / 30. Braveheart

31. Jefferson City of Angels / 32. No Sleep Til Brooklyn Cyclones / 33. Total Eclipse of the Heart Attack / 34. Panic at the Disco Inferno / 35. Captain Kangaroo Court / 36. A Different World Series of Poker / 37. Cassius Clay Aiken / 38. J. Geils Band of Brothers / 39. Justin Timberlake Placid / 40. Oakland Raiders of the Lost Ark

41. Jack Kevorkian / 42. Heartbreak Hotel / 43. D.G. Yuengling & Sons / 44. Verazanno Narrows Bridge / 45. Saturday Evening Post / 46. Roosevelt Field / 47. Quebec / 48. Boogie Nights / 49. 50 / 50. The United States

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